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Quinns?!

Well, well, well! Got the July Paradox newsletter, and look what I find inside:

“Captain Smith” joins ranks with Paradox Interactive

Former Rock, Paper, Shotgun journalist Quintin Smith is joining us at Paradox! Quintin will work with the marketing team as the Creative Marketing Commissar, though whether he’ll stay when he finds out the job doesn’t involve ordering around a small private army is unknown. Check out some of his most appreciated work here.

I'm going to be a meanie and say I found the videos really, really uncomfortable, despite being absolutely consumed with love for the man. He is A Writer, not an actor, and that's more than okay. I really miss his captivating, exploratory NGJ stories and astoundingly thorough breakdowns of tiny-yet-beautiful obscurities - it's the stuff he does best and for some reason I don't think his board games stuff (even written) exposes any of his brilliance. When Quinns left I was kind of optimistic in that it might mean less regular but more meaty pieces for RPS, or more stuff like Battle Klaxon, so I hope this board game venture doesn't subtract attention from those.

As I side note, I totally met Quinns and his girlfriend in person once. I'm kind of ashamed to say I recognised his face from RPS/blog pictures - I think it was the first time he'd been recognised in public. ANYWAY - it was a scary, scary coincidence: meeting this source of personal inspiration, whilst still a bit drunk, at a bus stop at like 3am on a Sunday (or something stupid like that), during a total of only, like, five days spent in London, before me and my friends flew home to the other side of the world. Can't help but feel I must have creeped Mr. Smith the fuck out.

Not too sure he did vids before. Hence why we all mistakenly buy strangers drinks in the pub thinking it is he.
He does/did a lot of written word. Only after being a big fan of Battle Klaxon did I discover it was he.